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Economics
Alphabetical List by Subject

ACCOUNTING page of links
Annual Reports (Annual Report Gallery) --Selected company annual reports. Full text with graphics.
Annual Reports (Investor Relations Information Network) --Selected company annual reports. Full text with graphics (Adobe Acrobat required). Also, request free printed annual reports for many companies via E-mail.
ArgMax economic news, articles, analysis, and glossary
BANKING page of links
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003
BUSINESS page of links
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy PBS site on globalization, world trade, and economic development
Commodity Fetish Times a clear explanation of the Marxist theory of commodity as spectacle; also has updates on transnational corporate globalization and worker resistance
CURRENCY page of links
Currency Exchange Rates (University of British Columbia) --Allows users to make graphs of exchange rates over time
Currency Exchange Rates - Universal Currency Converter (Xenon)
Dollars and Sense reports on issues of social justice and economic policy. Prints articles by journalists, activists, and scholars on a broad range of topics with an economic theme
Dr. T's EconLinks.com "a comprehensive index of useful links for anyone interested in economics, business, and finance" - has economics study aids for students
Economic Reporting Review
Economic Statistics Briefing Room --U.S. Economic Indicators from the White House Web site
Economics Working Paper Archive (Washington University)
EDGAR Online --Corporation filings (10-K, 10-Q etc.)
EDGAR (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) --Corporation filings
Educational Resources: Economics
Fed 101 an outstanding basic introduction to the federal reserve banking system and its history
FINANCE page of links
Financial Accounting Standards Board
FinFacts: Worldwide 2001 Cost of Living Survey: City Rankings compares the prices of more than 200 items in 144 cities around the world
FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas
Game Theory Explained
Geo Newsletter bimonthly; reports on worker cooperatives and community-based economies in the U.S. and worldwide
Global Capitalism and Its Discontents updates and articles focusing on anticapitalism
Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site, Nouriel Roubini's latest news and analysis
GLOBALIZATION page of links
Glossary of Political Economy Terms
GREENSPAN, ALAN notes and quotes
Grounds for Change "a Pacific Northwest organic coffee roaster specializing in socially responsible and environmentally sustainable coffee. We roast exclusively 100% Fair Trade Organic Coffee, that is grown in shaded conditions "
Inequality, UC Atlas of
Inequality.org info on the divide in income, "the great unmentionable"
INSURANCE page of links
International Economics Network a portal for international economics; links to economics sites, organized by topic area
International Labor Statistics
INVESTMENT page of links
Just Coffee organic coffee from fair trade collectives in Central America -- "Through Fair Trade, consumers, activists, and coffee roasters are partnering with small coffee growers to ensure that growers, their families, and their communities receive a fair price for their produce. By cutting the coffee supply chain down to a minimum number of participants, and by each paticipant committing to deal with the others as equal partners, Fair Trade is positively changing the way that coffee business is done" [a photo-editorial about this group ran in the November 2004 issue of The Progressive
Kicking Away the Ladder: Developement Strategy in Historical Perspective economics book by Ha-Joon Chang which argues that historically the free trade countries used tariffs and other forms of protectionism to develop their economies before turning to free trade; they are now trying to force free trade on developing nations which really need protectionism at this stage of their development
Labour Economics Gateway Internet-sites that are of interest to labour economists
Liber8 an economic information portal
Library of Economics and Liberty compilation of seminal works and ideas from important commentators on economics
MARKETING page of links
Mountain Voices interviews with over 300 people who live in mountain and highland regions around the world -- Mexico, Peru, Lesotho, Kenya, Ethiopia, Poland, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China -- its aim is to give a voice to people most affected by development and change at the local level
My Favorite Books Dave Iverson's list is about halfway down the document
Nash Equilibrium short definition
Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory 32 page paper on Nash's impact on economics and the social sciences
New Work News life in the new economy
OMB Watch "promoting government accountability" - focuses on budgetary matters and government secrecy
PATENTS page of links
Poverty Net--World Bank
The Short Run economics news and information site
Social Crisis in East Asia --World Bank
STATISTICS page of links
STOCKS & BONDS page of links
Taco Bell Boycott "Taco Bell is owned by Yum Brands, the world's largest restaurant company (bigger than McDonald's), which pools the buying power of its five major chain brands (Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silver, and A&W Restaurants) to demand the lowest possible prices from their suppliers, exerting a powerful downward pressure on wages and working conditions in their suppliers' operations"
TAXES page of links
Treasury Bulletin
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) includes press releases, interviews, speeches, op-ed pieces, statements of the Secretary-General, and nearly all its publications, in both English and Spanish
United States Foreign Trade Highlights

World Bank Group
WTO/GATT Research compiled by Jeanne Rehberg, NYU Law Librarian; an authoritative guide to an intimidating subject, without a trace of jargon

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